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Sep 1, 2005

Even as the flood waters are still rising in New Orleans, the American Red Cross has already spotted at least one fraudulent email and website soliciting donations for victims of hurricane Katrina. Phishers and fraudsters evidently have no qualms about preying on the kind to siphon off funds for the needy. Report any Red Cross emails that do not refer to www.redcross.org to the Red Cross CISO (infosec@usa.redcross.org).More IT fraud resources

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Dr Gary Hinson PhD MBA CISSP has an abiding interest in human factors - the ‘people side’ as opposed to the purely technical aspects of information security. Gary's career stretches back to the mid-1980s as both practitioner and manager in the fields of IT system and network administration, information security and IT auditing. He has worked and consulted in the pharmaceuticals/life sciences, utilities, IT, engineering, defense, financial services and government sectors, for organizations of all sizes. Since 2003, he has been creating security awareness materials for clients (www.NoticeBored.com) and supporting users of the ISO27k standards (www.ISO27001security.com). In conjunction with Krag Brotby, he wrote "PRAGMATIC security metrics" (www.SecurityMetametrics.com). He is a keen radio amateur, often calling but seldom heard by distant stations on the HF bands.